Credits:
Founder and Producer, Proximity Media
Producer, SINNERS, SEARCHING

SEV OHANIAN is an Academy Award–nominated and Golden Globe–winning producer and screenwriter, and Founder of Proximity Media alongside Ryan and Zinzi Coogler. Since launching the company in 2018, Proximity has produced a wide range of event-driven projects across film, television, documentaries, and podcasts. Their most recent film, Sinners, grossed over $369 million worldwide and received a record sixteen Academy Award nominations, winning four. Proximity’s debut feature, Judas and the Black Messiah, earned six Academy Award nominations and won two. Sev has produced major projects including Creed III, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Marvel’s Ironheart and Eyes of Wakanda, the National Geographic docuseries Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time. Sev is also known for co-writing Run, Missing, and Searching, and for producing those films alongside his wife, Natalie Qasabian. Searching was made for $880K and grossed over $75M globally. He received the Sundance Institute Amazon Studios Narrative Producer Award, THR’s 35 Under 35, Variety’s 40 Under 40, and was the first inductee into the Armenian Film Hall of Fame.